i just did a rm -rf /*r as root!!!

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 03:19, Gérard Milmeister wrote:

> On a critical system, best would be to backup the important data (using
> a rescue CD for example) and reinstall. Everything else is too much of
> hassle to be worth it.

I'd recommend installing backuppc (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/)
on a fast desktop machine with a big cheap drive added since most of
the work happens at night.  The setup can be a little tricky but once
installed it takes care of itself and makes backups completely painless.
It's biggest advantage over other systems is that it uses compression
and a scheme that hard-links all duplicate copies to make it possible
to keep 5-10x more data on-line in a given amount of space.

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com